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Windows XP Question Sat, 02 July 2005 10:30 Go to next message
Hi,

My brother in law has a WinXP system. When he logs onto it as the Administrator it shows a message that says "Can't find 'C'"

If you hit the Okay button it disappears and everything runs fine.

I'm assuming that somewhere in the start programs the system is trying to call/start a program called "C", but as "C" doesn't exist it shows this message.

Exactly where do I find, in XP, where it is trying to call "C" so I can remove the entry and hopefully it will go away.

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joorsh
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Re: Windows XP Question Sat, 02 July 2005 10:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Check msconfig under the startup tab.
Check autoexec.bat & config.sys.
Check start menu => programs => startup.
Check hklm => software => microsoft => windows => currentversion => run, in regedt32.

And if that still fails download a program call "Hijack this" and do a full scan. It should show up somewhere in that list.
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Re: Windows XP Question Sat, 02 July 2005 22:35 Go to previous messageGo to next message
^^^ good advice.
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Re: Windows XP Question Sun, 03 July 2005 07:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Open Start Menu
Select Run
Type msconfig
Enter

System Config Utility will open.

Go to Startup Tab

All or any Startup Item can be disabled on boot from there.
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joorsh
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Re: Windows XP Question Sun, 03 July 2005 12:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Not entirely.
There are quite a few places that objects/files can be put to run, and running msconfig will not show all of these. It will get 95% of startup items though, which is why you always check there first.
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Re: Windows XP Question Sun, 03 July 2005 23:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Take a screen shot of the error dialog and post it up for us.

Could be anything. The guys are on the right track though, check everything in the startup tab of the System Config. Util and we can take it from there.

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Re: Windows XP Question Sun, 03 July 2005 23:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
joorsh wrote on Sat, 02 July 2005 20:43

Check msconfig under the startup tab.
Check autoexec.bat & config.sys.
Check start menu => programs => startup.
Check hklm => software => microsoft => windows => currentversion => run, in regedt32.

And if that still fails download a program call "Hijack this" and do a full scan. It should show up somewhere in that list.


Do what that man said! Wink
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Re: Windows XP Question Mon, 04 July 2005 03:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
might be stupid yet is it asking for the C hdd ?
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Re: Windows XP Question Mon, 04 July 2005 18:49 Go to previous message
4DaDrift wrote on Mon, 04 July 2005 13:43

might be stupid yet is it asking for the C hdd ?


There's no such thing as a stupid question, only a newbie question.
Actually I guess there are such things as stupid questions lol.
Nah, it wouldn't come up with that error if it couldn't find a hard disk. That would be a BIOS detection issue, Windows would never know it was there if it wasn't first detected so you would never get that error.
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